Points North Design

A creative consulting studio based in Baltimore, Maryland, Points North works with foundations, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations on branding and storytelling projects. Its client roster includes global foundations and advocacy groups such as the Abell Foundation, Plastic Solutions Fund, and Sharks Pacific, reflecting a focus on organizations built around social or environmental causes. The studio is small, with a team of between one and ten people, and describes over 15 years of experience building brands and solving creative challenges for a range of companies and global foundations. The studio's declared services span branding, logo design, content marketing, public relations, social media marketing, UX/UI design, advertising, and search engine optimization, though the site material centers most concretely on brand definition, storytelling, and website design. Its stated approach relies on design-thinking: asking questions, developing strategy, and turning creative challenges into actionable solutions rather than following short-term trends. Project examples include a website refresh for the Abell Foundation aimed at reflecting the organization's values and community partners, a brand and website for the Plastic Solutions Fund that reframed the single-use plastics issue around solutions rather than pollution imagery, and a website for Sharks Pacific designed to serve as both a storytelling tool and a research resource. Client feedback cited in the material also references ongoing website support, branding, and digital marketing work delivered over multi-year engagements.